Lecture

CLAS Speaker Series presents, Brodwyn Fischer from The University of Chicago's Department of History

Join Dr. Marcia Chuva (Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro), Dr. Leila Bianchi (UniRio), Dr. Aline Montenegro (Ipiranga Museum), and Dr. Vanicleia Ribeiro (UPenn) to discuss their research on slavery and memorialization in Brazil.

Zoom link here: https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIrd-GsqT0tE9LWZVwZteRQQvCa5Z6azFjt

Juliana Pereira, (PUC-Rio), and Lissa Passos, (Universidade Federal Fluminense) present: Sobre gêneros, blackface e a produção de racismo no teatro de revista

CULTNA is an initiative that brings together the Laboratório de História Oral e Imagem (LABHOI), at Universidade Federal Fluminense and Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, and the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Once a month we discuss recent work with scholars and students interested in the topic. Discussions are held virtually in Portuguese.

Gilson Rabelli, Universidade Federal do Sergipe, presents: "Arqueologia da Escravidão no Mar".

CULTNA is an initiative that brings together the Laboratório de História Oral e Imagem (LABHOI), at Universidade Federal Fluminense and Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, and the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Once a month we discuss recent work with scholars and students interested in the topic. Discussions are held virtually in Portuguese.

The Whitney Plantation is a former indigo then sugar plantation located on the west bank of the Mississippi River, in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. The site is now open to the public as a museum with a total focus on slavery. As a site of memory and consciousness, the Whitney Plantation Museum is meant to pay homage to all the people who were enslaved in Louisiana and everywhere else in the United States.

Join Brazilian trans activist, academic, and journalist, Sara Wagner York, for a roundtable on intersections of Latinx identity, featuring comments by Dr. David Tenorio from the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures.  

Co-hosted by the Center for Latin American Studies at the University Center for International Studies and the Ford Institute for Human Security at the Graduate School for Public and International Affairs.

A light lunch will be served. Please register with the link provided. 

The presentation explores the case of Arnaldo Ochoa, a top-ranking general in the Cuban military who once rivalled Fidel Castro in popularity and esteem across the island. News of Ochoa’s arrest, conviction and execution on grounds of corruption and drug-smuggling in 1989 shocked both Cuba and the globe. This talk explores what happened to Ochoa through the lens of his military leadership in Angola, the southern African nation whose independence Cuba had been supporting since 1975.

What is Donald Trump's personality like? What was his family like? What is his ideology? What have been the highlights of his performance as a businessman, candidate, and head of the government of the most powerful country in the world? These questions require multi-causal answers that go beyond the clichés that have been spread by his defenders, his detractors, and Trump himself. The 45th president of the United States has been both praised and reviled.

This area refers to how globalization affects people’s susceptibility to physical and mental illnesses, their access to appropriate kinds of care, and their general well being within the context of their community. Speakers include dedicated professionals within the fields of global health, public health, medicine, policy and advocacy.

This area refers to how globalization affects people’s susceptibility to physical and mental illnesses, their access to appropriate kinds of care, and their general well being within the context of their community. Speakers include dedicated professionals within the fields of global health, public health, medicine, policy and advocacy.